Every so often on this blog, I've asked whatever became of Ed Bluestone. He was a very funny stand-up comic (in my opinion) and he was all over TV in the mid-to-late seventies and early eighties. Before that, he was a writer for National Lampoon during its best period and was credited with conceiving their most famous cover — the one with the dog with a gun to his doggy head and the ominous threat, "If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this dog."
For a while, Bluestone was everywhere and then suddenly, you didn't see him. I've asked at least three times on this blog and no one has written in to give me any information on his whereabouts, current doings, health, anything. Well, I finally spotted him. He was in that documentary about The Comedy Store. He was interviewed and identified very, very briefly in what appeared to be a recent clip shot at the club…so I guess he's still around. Good to know. Here he is on Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop, a series which ran from 1978 to 1983 and featured stand-ups performing on a stage with awkward cutaways to Norm and the audience, probably to mask edits…